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  1. The extraction and characterization of secondary microplastics, those formed through subjection to the environment, must continuously improve in accuracy and applicability in order to generate robust microplas...

    Authors: Jeanne M. Hankett, Jennifer L. Holtz, Imari Walker-Franklin, Kathryn Shaffer, Jerome Jourdan, Derek C. Batiste, Jessie M. Garcia, Christine Kaczan, Wendel Wohlleben and Lee Ferguson
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:13
  2. Paint particles are a highly-important but as-yet overlooked type of microplastic commonly found in coastal sediment, although research interest is growing. There is a need for paint particles as laboratory st...

    Authors: Alexander S. Tagg
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:12
  3. Plastic pollution is now so widespread that microplastics are regularly detected in biological samples surveyed for their presence. Despite their pervasiveness, very little is known about the effects of microp...

    Authors: C. Lauren Mills, Joy Savanagouder, Marcia de Almeida Monteiro Melo Ferraz and Michael J. Noonan
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:11
  4. Micro- and nanoplastics (MNP) are ubiquitous, but little is known about the risks they pose to human health. Currently available data are of limited use for developing relevant risk assessments due to poor qua...

    Authors: Luke A. Parker, Elena M. Höppener, Edward F. van Amelrooij, Sieger Henke, Ingeborg M. Kooter, Kalouda Grigoriadi, Merel G. A. Nooijens, Andrea M. Brunner and Arjen Boersma
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:10
  5. This research project investigates the potential of machine learning for the analysis of microplastic Raman spectra in environmental samples. Based on a data set of > 64,000 Raman spectra (10.7% polymer spectr...

    Authors: Felix Weber, Andreas Zinnen and Jutta Kerpen
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:9
  6. Microplastics are small (< 5 mm) synthetic polymers that are a contaminant of emerging concern and can be difficult to identify due to their diversity in size, shape and composition. The hot needle test, or ho...

    Authors: Barbara Beckingham, Adriana Apintiloaiei, Caroline Moore and Jay Brandes
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:8
  7. Concern about plastic pollution, including microplastics, is high amongst European citizens, and effective actions are needed to reduce microplastic pollution. However, there is still uncertainty and debate ab...

    Authors: Maja Grünzner, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White and Richard C. Thompson
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:7
  8. A majority of American adults report having used sex toys, which, by design, interact with intimate and permeable body parts yet have not been subject to sufficient risk assessment or management. Physical and ...

    Authors: Joana Marie Sipe, Jaleesia D. Amos, Robert F. Swarthout, Amalia Turner, Mark R. Wiesner and Christine Ogilvie Hendren
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:6
  9. Anthropogenic microfibres are a prevalent, persistent and globally distributed form of marine debris. Evidence of microfibre ingestion has been demonstrated in a range of organisms, including Mytilus spp. (mussel...

    Authors: Christopher Walkinshaw, Trevor J. Tolhurst, Penelope K. Lindeque, Richard C. Thompson and Matthew Cole
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:5
  10. Microplastic particle concentration at the sea surface is critical for quantifying microplastic transport across the water-air interface. Previous studies suggest that the concentration at the sea surface is e...

    Authors: Moritz Lehmann, Fabian P. Häusl and Stephan Gekle
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:4
  11. The intensive global plastic production, use and associated plastic pollution have caused concern for the potential risks to human health and the environment. This has led to the adoption of numerous regulator...

    Authors: Maria Bille Nielsen, Lauge Peter Westergaard Clausen, Richard Cronin, Steffen Foss Hansen, Nikoline Garner Oturai and Kristian Syberg
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:3
  12. Although a considerable knowledge base exists for environmental contamination from nanoscale and colloidal particles, significant knowledge gaps exist regarding the sources, transport, distribution, and effect...

    Authors: Mark C. Surette, Denise M. Mitrano and Kim R. Rogers
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:2
  13. Cigarettes are the most littered item in public spaces. Smokers who litter are leaving a trace of toxic waste that adds to the global plastic pollution due to harmful chemicals and semisynthetic microfibres th...

    Authors: Therese Nitschke, Agathe Bour, Magnus Bergquist, Marion Blanchard, Francesca Molinari and Bethanie Carney Almroth
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2023 3:1
  14. Evidence for direct adverse effects of micro- and nanoplastic particles (MNPs) on human health is scarce, but it has been hypothesized that MNPs act as carriers for environmental pollutants such as polycyclic ...

    Authors: Emeka Ephraim Emecheta, Diana Borda Borda, Patrizia Marie Pfohl, Wendel Wohlleben, Christoph Hutzler, Andrea Haase and Alexander Roloff
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:29
  15. Since 1950 humans have introduced 8300 teragrams (Tg, 1012 g, millions of metric tons) of plastic polymers into the Earth’s surface environment. Accounting for the dispersal and fate of produced plastics and frag...

    Authors: Jeroen E. Sonke, Alkuin M. Koenig, Nadiia Yakovenko, Oskar Hagelskjær, Henar Margenat, Sophia V. Hansson, Francois De Vleeschouwer, Olivier Magand, Gael Le Roux and Jennie L. Thomas
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:28
  16. Common sediment samplers for microplastics (MP) such as grab samplers or corers are limited to certain grain sizes and known to cause disruption of sediments which results in a loss of fine and low-density par...

    Authors: Yasmin Adomat, Melanie Kahl, Fabian Musche and Thomas Grischek
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:27
  17. Microplastic is now ubiquitous in freshwater, sediment and biota, globally. This is as a consequence of inputs from, for example, waste mismanagement, effluents from wastewater treatment plants and surface run...

    Authors: Emilie M. F. Kallenbach, Tor Erik Eriksen, Rachel R. Hurley, Dean Jacobsen, Cecilie Singdahl-Larsen and Nikolai Friberg
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:26
  18. Floodplain soilscapes act as temporary sinks in the environment and are nowadays affected by multiple contaminant accumulations and exposures, including different trace metals and plastics. Despite increasing ...

    Authors: Collin J. Weber, Christian Opp, Julia A. Prume, Martin Koch and Peter Chifflard
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:25
  19. The African continent is rarely the focus of microplastics research, although the ubiquity of microplastics in the environment is undisputed and still increasing. Due to the high production and use of plastic ...

    Authors: L. Faulstich, J. A. Prume, R. Arendt, Ch. Reinhardt-Imjela, P. Chifflard and A. Schulte
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:24
  20. Polymers are omnipresent in our everyday lives. For specific applications, their properties can be extensively modified by various types of additives, e.g., processing stabilizers, antioxidants, UV-stabilizers...

    Authors: Nora Meides, Anika Mauel, Teresa Menzel, Volker Altstädt, Holger Ruckdäschel, Jürgen Senker and Peter Strohriegl
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:23
  21. This paper examines a number of specific, practical recommendations to advance knowledge and move towards evidence-based solutions to microplastic (MP) pollution in the Nordic marine environment. The paper app...

    Authors: Sophie Jensen, Bjørn Einar Grøsvik, Claudia Halsband, Halldór Pálmar Halldórsson, Heather A. Leslie, Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir, Hermann Dreki Guls, Katrin Vorkamp, Maria E. Granberg, Valtýr Sigurðsson and Hrönn Ólína Jörundsdóttir
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:22
  22. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

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    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

    The original article was published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:18

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  23. There is definitive evidence that microplastics, defined as plastic particles less than 5 mm in size, are ubiquitous in the environment and can cause harm to aquatic organisms. These findings have prompted leg...

    Authors: Leah M. Thornton Hampton, Susanne M. Brander, Scott Coffin, Matthew Cole, Ludovic Hermabessiere, Albert A. Koelmans and Chelsea M. Rochman
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:20
  24. Assessing microplastics risk to aquatic ecosystems has been limited by lack of holistic exposure data and poor understanding of biological response thresholds. Here we take advantage of two recent advances, a ...

    Authors: Scott Coffin, Stephen B. Weisberg, Chelsea Rochman, Merel Kooi and Albert A. Koelmans
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:19
  25. To assess the potential risk of microplastic exposure to humans and aquatic ecosystems, reliable toxicity data is needed. This includes a more complete foundational understanding of microplastic toxicity and b...

    Authors: Leah M. Thornton Hampton, Hans Bouwmeester, Susanne M. Brander, Scott Coffin, Matthew Cole, Ludovic Hermabessiere, Alvine C. Mehinto, Ezra Miller, Chelsea M. Rochman and Stephen B. Weisberg
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:18

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  26. Microplastic particles (MPs) are ubiquitous across a wide range of aquatic habitats but determining an appropriate level of risk management is hindered by a poor understanding of environmental risk. Here, we i...

    Authors: Alvine C. Mehinto, Scott Coffin, Albert A. Koelmans, Susanne M. Brander, Martin Wagner, Leah M. Thornton Hampton, Allen G. Burton Jr, Ezra Miller, Todd Gouin, Stephen B. Weisberg and Chelsea M. Rochman
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:17

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  27. The continuously increasing use of plastics is supposed to result in a rising exposure of MNPs to humans. Available data on human health risks of microplastics after oral uptake increased immensely in the past...

    Authors: Maxi B. Paul, Christoph Fahrenson, Lucas Givelet, Tim Herrmann, Katrin Loeschner, Linda Böhmert, Andreas F. Thünemann, Albert Braeuning and Holger Sieg
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:16
  28. Despite global efforts to monitor, mitigate against, and prevent trash (mismanaged solid waste) pollution, no harmonized trash typology system has been widely adopted worldwide. This impedes the merging of dat...

    Authors: Hannah Hapich, Win Cowger, Andrew Gray, Neil Tangri, Tony Hale, Amr Magdy, Antoinette Vermilye, Walter Yu, Dick Ayres, Charles Moore, John Vermilye, Samiksha Singh, Aaron N. K. Haiman, Kathryn Youngblood, Yunfan Kang, Margaret McCauley…
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:15
  29. The pollution of the environment with microplastics (MPs) is affecting aquatic organisms worldwide, and yet intensive research, has thus far failed to deliver an adequate understanding of the detrimental effec...

    Authors: S. Roch, A. Rebl, W. Wolski and A. Brinker
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:14
  30. Throughout the past decade, many studies have reported adverse effects in biota following microplastic exposure. Yet, the field is still emerging as the current understanding of microplastic toxicity is limite...

    Authors: Leah M. Thornton Hampton, Heili Lowman, Scott Coffin, Emily Darin, Hannah De Frond, Ludovic Hermabessiere, Ezra Miller, Vera N. de Ruijter, Andrea Faltynkova, Syd Kotar, Laura Monclús, Samreen Siddiqui, Johannes Völker, Susanne Brander, Albert A. Koelmans, Chelsea M. Rochman…
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:13

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  31. Microplastics have been documented in drinking water, but their effects on human health from ingestion, or the concentrations at which those effects begin to manifest, are not established. Here, we report on t...

    Authors: Scott Coffin, Hans Bouwmeester, Susanne Brander, Pauliina Damdimopoulou, Todd Gouin, Ludovic Hermabessiere, Elaine Khan, Albert A. Koelmans, Christine L. Lemieux, Katja Teerds, Martin Wagner, Stephen B. Weisberg and Stephanie Wright
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:12

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  32. Plastic debris both affects and is affected by the beaches it accumulates on. Most studies of microplastics (MPs) in beach sand are focused on coastal beaches or beaches of large lakes near population centers....

    Authors: Zhiqiang Gao, Kendall Wontor, James V. Cizdziel and Haitao Lu
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:10
  33. Plastic pollution is a major environmental concern due to its pervasiveness which continues to increase year on year, as a result of a continuing acceleration in global plastic production and use. Polyethylene...

    Authors: J. Cristóbal Aguilar-Guzmán, Katarzyna Bejtka, Marco Fontana, Eugenia Valsami-Jones, Anaid Meza Villezcas, Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt and Ana G. Rodríguez-Hernández
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:9
  34. In recent decades, the potential toxicological and environmental effects of microplastics (MPs) in the Mediterranean Sea region have received growing attention. The number of studies in this area has increased...

    Authors: Marija Papadimitriu and Graeme Allinson
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:8
  35. The global ubiquity and demonstrated toxicity of microplastics has led governments around the world to express the need for a risk assessment on microplastics. To conduct a risk assessment, scientists often dr...

    Authors: Kennedy Bucci and Chelsea M. Rochman
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:7

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  36. Micro- and nanoplastics (MNP) can be found virtually everywhere around us in the biosphere and food chain, therefore humans are continuously exposed to MNP, mainly via inhalation and ingestion. Here, we have a...

    Authors: Joanne M. Donkers, Elena M. Höppener, Ilya Grigoriev, Lena Will, Barbro N. Melgert, Bas van der Zaan, Evita van de Steeg and Ingeborg M. Kooter
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:6
  37. This correspondence article provides a response to comments that have been raised regarding the long-range environmental transport of chemical additives associated with microplastic particles and plastic debri...

    Authors: Todd Gouin
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:5

    The original article was published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:14

    The original article was published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:4

  38. Important clarifications regarding the long-range environmental transport of chemical additives contained in floating plastic debris are presented.

    Authors: Juliane Glüge, Narain M. Ashta, Dorte Herzke, Laurent Lebreton and Martin Scheringer
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:4

    The original article was published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:14

    The Correspondence to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:5

  39. The global production of plastic currently exceeds 300 million tonnes per year. The extensive use of plastics and bad waste management has resulted in the presence of microplastics at different levels in the f...

    Authors: Ruud Peters, Nadine de Jong, Laura de Haan, Stephanie Wright and Hans Bouwmeester
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:3

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  40. Concern regarding the human health implications that exposure to nano- and microplastic particles (NMPs) potentially represents is increasing. While there have been several years of research reporting on the e...

    Authors: Todd Gouin, Robert Ellis-Hutchings, Leah M. Thornton Hampton, Christine L. Lemieux and Stephanie L. Wright
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:2

    The Correction to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:21

  41. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of disposable plastics, including medical masks, which have become a necessity in our daily lives. As these are often improperly disposed of, they represent an impor...

    Authors: Anita Jemec Kokalj, Andraž Dolar, Damjana Drobne, Marjan Marinšek, Matej Dolenec, Luka Škrlep, Gregor Strmljan, Branka Mušič and Andrijana Sever Škapin
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:1
  42. Mass estimates of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes based on surface samples differ by orders of magnitude from what is predicted by production and input rates. It has been theorized that a potential locati...

    Authors: Juliette Daily, Victor Onink, Cleo E. Jongedijk, Charlotte Laufkötter and Matthew J. Hoffman
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:19
  43. Raindrops impacting water surfaces such as lakes or oceans produce myriads of tiny droplets which are ejected into the atmosphere at very high speeds. Here we combine computer simulations and experimental meas...

    Authors: Moritz Lehmann, Lisa Marie Oehlschlägel, Fabian P. Häusl, Andreas Held and Stephan Gekle
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:18
  44. Marine plastic abundance has increased over the past 60 years and microplastics (< 5 mm) constitute a primary component of such litter. Filter-feeding megafauna, such as the whale shark, might be particularly ...

    Authors: Mila Mi Hua Yong, Clara Leistenschneider, Joni Anne Miranda, Maria Kristina Paler, Christine Legaspi, Elitza Germanov, Gonzalo Araujo, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm and Gabriel Erni-Cassola
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:17
  45. A total of 8218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world’s oceans were synthesized to create a dataset composed of raw, calibrated, processed, and gridded data which are made available to the public. The ra...

    Authors: Atsuhiko Isobe, Takafumi Azuma, Muhammad Reza Cordova, Andrés Cózar, Francois Galgani, Ryuichi Hagita, La Daana Kanhai, Keiri Imai, Shinsuke Iwasaki, Shin’ichro Kako, Nikolai Kozlovskii, Amy L. Lusher, Sherri A. Mason, Yutaka Michida, Takahisa Mituhasi, Yasuhiro Morii…
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:16
  46. Microplastic fibers are frequent contaminants of aquatic ecosystems. Early life stages of aquatic organisms are predicted to be especially vulnerable to microplastic pollution. We hypothesized that microplasti...

    Authors: Anja Bunge (née Rebelein), Ulrike Kammann and Jörn Peter Scharsack
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:15
  47. Over the last several years there has been increasing concern regarding the environmental fate and potential global transport of plastic debris, particularly in the form of microplastic particles (MPs). The gl...

    Authors: Todd Gouin
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:14

    The Letter to Editor to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:4

    The Correspondence to this article has been published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:5

  48. A central challenge in microplastics (MP, diameter < 5 mm) research is the analysis of small plastic particles in an efficient manner. This review focuses on the recent application of infrared hyperspectral im...

    Authors: Andrea Faltynkova, Geir Johnsen and Martin Wagner
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:13
  49. The treatment of samples for microplastic (MP) analysis requires purification steps that sufficiently reduce the non-MP content while preserving the targeted particles integrity. Besides their macromolecular s...

    Authors: Robin Lenz, Kristina Enders, Franziska Fischer, Josef Brandt, Dieter Fischer and Matthias Labrenz
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:12